Clair Denis collection out on dvd

THE CLAIRE DENIS COLLECTION (15) £29.99
Collection of four films directed by Claire Denis. In ‘White Material’
(2009), when coffee plantation owner Henri Vial (Michel Subor), his son
Andre (Christopher Lambert) and his ex-wife Marie (Isabelle Huppert)
find themselves caught up in the turmoil of a rapidly disintegrating
political situation, they refuse to acknowledge the danger of the social
unrest that has now reached boiling point in their adopted homeland.
Joining forces with a black rebel army hero who is also embroiled in the
tumult, the Vials fight to survive as their world rapidly crumbles
around them.

In ‘Beau Travail’ (1999), Sergeant-Major Galoup (Denis Lavant) is
growing increasingly jealous of the popular new recruit Sentain
(Grégoire Colin) and decides to bring about his downfall. Eventually,
when the platoon have left on a series of exercises, Galoup manages to
provoke Sentain into a direct confrontation and the two of them come
face-to-face for the last time in an incredible sequence set against a
harsh, rocky coastal landscape. In ‘Nénette et Boni’ (1996), Boni
(Colin) has enough trouble containing his erotic fixation with the local
baker’s wife, but when his estranged younger sister, Nénette (Alice
Houri), arrives on his doorstep claiming she’s pregnant, a whole host of
new problems come to the fore.

As the two struggle to adjust to their new situation, they begin to
understand each other as well as the new responsibility which awaits
them in the future. In ‘Chocolat’ (1988), a young French woman returns
to the remote bush region of the Cameroons where she grew up. Her
journey inspires recollections of the colonial lifestyle, the servant
she befriended and a particularly unsettling incident when a plane
crashed nearby and the house was invaded by passengers and crew.